When Jonathan Franzen was writing Freedom, he isolated himself by stripping down an ancient laptop, supergluing a cable into the Ethernet port, and cutting the cord with a hacksaw. Take […] ...Keep Reading »

To no one’s surprise, the XX panel discussion at the 2013 NASW meeting last weekend in Gainesville was standing room only. The panel’s original focus — a long overdue conversation […] ...Keep Reading »

Our third virtual mentoring session featured Mark Schrope (bio), SciLance’s resident expert on contract literacy. Throughout the conversation, Mark and Bryn discussed techniques that can help a writer ask for the […] ...Keep Reading »

At the 8th World Conference of Science Journalists in Helsinki in June, I participated in a debate where I took an extreme position of taking money for any writing job. My real position […] ...Keep Reading »